![“Che dressed in disguise to visit his own children before a secret trip to Bolivia to foment revolution there. When the kids arrived, I introduced them to a Uruguayan old man, ‘Ramon’ [Che], a ‘friend’ of dad’s. They never imagined this 60-year-old man could be their daddy. For both Che and me, it was an extremely painful moment. The kids played with ‘Ramón’ all day. Then, Aleidita [then 7] hit her head after running wild, and Che [a physician] took care of her. Soon afterwards, she came to me to tell me a secret he could overhear: ‘Mommy, this man is in love with me!’”
— Aleida March](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m50o8h33641qjo4guo1_250.jpg)
“Che dressed in disguise to visit his own children before a secret trip to Bolivia to foment revolution there. When the kids arrived, I introduced them to a Uruguayan old man, ‘Ramon’ [Che], a ‘friend’ of dad’s. They never imagined this 60-year-old man could be their daddy. For both Che and me, it was an extremely painful moment. The kids played with ‘Ramón’ all day. Then, Aleidita [then 7] hit her head after running wild, and Che [a physician] took care of her. Soon afterwards, she came to me to tell me a secret he could overhear: ‘Mommy, this man is in love with me!’”
— Aleida March
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.
…our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people.
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Boredom is always counterrevolutionary.
Can’t help but admire his almost incomparable style.
Eminem got it right in 8 Mile: “Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”
Che Guevara; not as a factory worker, but as the Minister of Industry - 1961
J.R.R. Tolkien
…There’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism.
Barack Obama, excerpted from a 1982 letter.
A telling quote and a view that I share. Perhaps he has, in fact, mastered the technique by which radicalism can effectively mask itself while maintaining its purpose. What’s most interesting is that he’s done so by rhetorically masking it with conservatism (as the quote would support), not bourgeois liberalism, which is a very common mistake that his fellow social democrats make. Obama is an exceptionally unique politician—seemingly heavily influenced by Alinsky and Foucault.
Obama has by no means brought real change to America’s institutional structure by almost anyone’s standard, as we saw by the 2010 midterms, when Hope and Change were exposed to be brilliant propaganda operations. He is remarkably unique, however, and given his past, it’s a fatal mistake to oversimplify any of the rhetoric he employs, the decisions he makes, and person he is.
